The language of the Comanche people, a lifeline of its culture, is fading fast. Its muted vowels and sapient cadence once echoed throughout the fenceless grasslands of the South Plains, but today it can muster barely a whisper. That's why Texas ...

The Bureau of Indian Affairs has withdrawn its biological assessment for a proposed power plant in northwestern New Mexico, saying it has "significant concerns" about the impact of mercury and selenium on two endangered fish species in the San Juan River

It appears the time has come for a deep, thorough investigation of what is going on at Haskell Indian Nations University. Haskell is a unique and important university, and it deserves every opportunity to fulfill its mission of helping prepare ...

In the early 70s, English professors at the University of Michigan wanted it to allow "black English" as an acceptable form of academic communication. Invited to help develop the proposal, I deplored the idea. I said that blacks allowed to use "black ...

Tribal thinking and tribal identity factor heavily in Richard Montoya's new play "Palestine, New Mexico," running through Jan. 24 at the Mark Taper Forum. There's the close-knit tribe otherwise known as the U.S. military. An American Indian tribe that...

Classic rock legends Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles are planning a summer tour that would bring the two 1970's rock legends together to play a series of concerts in football and baseball stadiums. It is not clear whether the Eagles or Fleetwood Mac would...

"We will return to our ceremonies, and we will gain back our strength and our values," said Justin Kii Huenemann (Navajo), President and CEO of the Native American Community Development Institute (NACDI). "We are just at the beginning of this new ...

Ah, Christmas. It´s a great time of year. It gets its name from the one who was born at this time - Christ, the boy child, Jesus. Christians know this, as do folks of all other faiths. As the Son of God, Jesus brought forgiveness and the feelings that ...

Wellbriety for Prisons, Inc. is offering a series of three different three-day, Native American culturally-based alcohol and drug, relapse prevention, criminal thinking, and Mentoring training, for those who work with programs for inmates in federal, ...

Cleveland Kills In Sight fears the night. He fears the nightmare that visits him in the darkness of his St. Francis apartment, bringing with it the terror of a morning two months ago when he lay in his hospital bed and a doctor pressed her fingers...